Snuffallophagy

I was glad to see an article about the Jamie Oliver chicken business in the DI/DO yesterday. Inevitably, it has a degree of stunt to it, and lotsa p to the r for Jamie, but for all that, I think well worth doing. In a variation on "if you can't do the time, don't do the crime" we need something like "if you can't slit the throat, you can't eat the goat." I am an unapologetic meat eater, but I try to be mindful about my meat. When so much of the food industry works to obfuscate where meat comes from, this, and the slaughtering photos at the beginning of the River Cottage meat book, are important reminders. However, a phrase in Moskin's lede suggests she didn't get it:

LAST Friday, in front of 4 million television viewers and a studio audience, the chef Jamie Oliver killed a chicken. Having recently obtained a United Kingdom slaughterman’s license, Mr. Oliver staged a “gala dinner,” in fact a kind of avian snuff film, to awaken British consumers to the high costs of cheap chicken.

Surely, Moskin does not mean "snuff film," unless she feels that Oliver killed the chicken on camera to titillate his viewers.
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[BK]

About time folks learn "meat" isn't born prepackaged in fricking styrofoam and Saran. Let it bleed.